Issue - meetings

The committee to consider key information from the end of year report considered by the Adoption and Permanence Panel .

The committee received an end of year report  from the Adoption and Permanence panel  which contained statistics for the work achieved  by the panel in 2010/11 .It was noted that Haringey performed better than neighbouring boroughs on the number of children placed  for adoption. However  the borough had more children in care than other neighbouring boroughs.   The committee noted that the adoption service will seek to place siblings together unless there were good reasons for the siblings to be separated. There will  be recommendations from the service to the panel on how the siblings should be placed  as they will be treating the children as individuals with needs  and on some occasions it may not be in the best interest of the children to place  them with all or some of their siblings.

The committee asked  how confident the  children and families service were in meeting the updated  target   of placing a child with a prospective adopter within 6 months of the agency decision.   The committee learned that this would be a difficult task but the service would respond to this by strating the parallel planning which takes place when a child is identified for  potential adoption earlier.

RESOLVED

That the report be noted